Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

成功先于工作的唯一地方是在字典里。

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

We are all, in the end, what we remember.

The environment will appear different to different observers depending on what they are prepared to see.

人们变得文明，不在于他们愿意相信的程度，而在于他们愿意怀疑的程度。

写作就是面对存在的混乱并强加某种秩序。

小说是一面反映社会的镜子，包括所有的光明和阴影。

我们热衷于把事情简单化。